Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FACULTY SENIORS ,IUNIORS SOPHOMORES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS FEATURES 7M

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FORWARD E As you turn the pages of this Zejnlzyrzzs, We hope that your high school days of l934-'35 will unfold before you in romantic fashion, and lu memory thought will Wander To those best loved days of old, Wheii we sang and cheered and conquerecl For the Purple and the Goldf' EDITOR--DOROTHY HUTCHENS BUSINESS NIANAGER-VIENO OSTERLLINIJ iii 6

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Three Hundred Years As l study the evolution of the secondary school, I am re- minded of the stages through which a butterfly passes. ln the early stages the worm crawls over the ground in a lowly and simple fashion, seeking for the food which is essen- tial to its existence. Unconsciously it is laying a foundation for a future self. During a certain period of time it finds it- self bound up within a beautifully but an intricately woven case, from which, after a process of metamorphosis has taken place, it emerges-the gauzy, gorgeous butterfly. No longer does she crawl on the earthg no longer is she tied down with mere practical, arduous living, no longer is she bound down by iron-clad tradition. Now she walks on the ground and flys through the air. The warm sunshine, the per- fume of the violet, the freshness of the grass, the soft texture of the moss, the music of the birds, the turquoise waters of the sea, the azure-bathed mountains--all are magnified through her. And the world loses its profaneness. So, in 1635, the Boston Latin School was organized with one instructor and a mere handful of students. The students stayed in school all day, grinding at Latin, Reading, W1'iti11g, Arithme- tic, and the Bible. The teacher stood over the students with whips and canes, making sure their heads were bent over their Latin Grammar. Today the student is the victim of an overcrowded curriculum, and capsuled education. Tradition makes him think so, act so, speak so, if he would graduate. Signs of metamorphsis are evi- dent, but the process is a painful one, and sometimes fatal. Tomorrow the student will be liberated. No longer will he be held down in a case of traditions. The rocket belt will en- able him to travel dizzy distances, and he will discuss interna- tional problems with his neighbors in mid-ocean floating schools: he will shoot up to Mars to get first hand informationg television, plus slow motion devices, will unfold him the 1HOSt complex of principles. Libraries furnished with luxurious dav- enports and shelves and shelves of alluring and thought stimu- lating books will invite and compel him to read during those long hours of leisure, forced upon him by the advent of the two hour working day. No longer will he be part of a mass. He will be an individual, satisfying the needs, hungers, and appe- tites of the soul of the individual. And so the world loses some of its profaneness.